Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 28 Sep 2026

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09/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 105

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:32:23

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (5 shows)

2. Louie Media (5 shows)

3. Paradiso Media (3 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (19 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (14 shows)

4. Ausha (7 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
5	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	73
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
10	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
11	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	19	Acast	68
12	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	102	Acast	73
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	63
16	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	6	Audiomeans	38
20	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	16	Acast	90
21	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
22	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
23	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
24	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
25	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
26	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	291	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
28	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
29	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	32	Simplecast	49
30	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
31	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
32	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
33	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
34	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	29	Spotify for Podcasters	38
35	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
36	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
37	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	957	Spreaker	64
38	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
39	LAISSE BETON	Amélie DAGUES	Society & Culture	89	Audiomeans	79
40	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
41	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
42	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
43	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	71	Spotify for Podcasters	48
44	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
45	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
46	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
47	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
48	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
49	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
50	Les icebergs ÉPOUVANTABLES de Creepy Machine	Creepy Machine	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
51	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	124	Simplecast	53
52	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	23	Acast	58
53	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
56	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
57	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
60	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
61	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
62	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
63	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
64	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
65	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	78	Spotify for Podcasters	38
66	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
67	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
68	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
69	Juifs, Musulmans: tenir ensemble	Chahut Media	Society & Culture	3	Captivate	52
70	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
71	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
72	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
73	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
74	WhatsApp University And Corona(Hindi) The Debator!	The Galaga Guy	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	63
75	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
76	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	73
77	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
78	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	58
79	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
80	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
81	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
82	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
83	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
84	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
85	Retours en Algérie	Saphia Arezki	Society & Culture	1	Acast	59
86	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
87	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
88	Sauver sa peau	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	2	Audiomeans	68
89	Morgana	Storielibere.fm	Society & Culture	57	Megaphone	48
90	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	63
91	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
92	Réel média	Réel média	Society & Culture	5	Acast	73
93	Invece adesso ero là	samara.croci	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
94	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
95	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
96	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
97	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
98	Au coeur des tiers-lieux : les éclaireurs de la transformation écologique	ANCT Agence-nationale-de-la-cohésion-des-territoires	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
99	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
100	Bleue comme Mars	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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